Kelly - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a keyboard player, producer, composer, writer, and court reporter in Buffalo, New York.

My Interests

Music, writing, blogging, chatting

I'd like to meet:

Friends, interesting people,I edited my profile at Freeweblayouts.net , check out these Myspace Layouts!

Music:

Jazz, R&B, Soul, Pop, Rock, Gospel, Classical

Movies:

Double Happiness, Raisin in the Sun, Saving Face, Mississippi Masala, Love Jones, Brown Sugar, Sideways, Heaven and Earth, Ghandi, Basquiat, Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity, Frida, All three Godfathers, Lost in Translation, In Cold Blood, She's Gotta Have It, Do the Right Thing, Joy Luck Club, Glengarry Glen Ross...

Television:

Studio 60 on Sunset Strip, Inside the Actor's Studio, The Wire, BET on Jazz (when they used to play actual jazz)

Books:

White Teeth by Zadie Smith; ANYTHING by Zadie Smith; various autobiographies; Gorrila My Love by Toni Cade Bambara; Autobiography of Malcolm X;

Heroes:

George Benson, Oscar Peterson, Spike Lee, Le Ly Hayslip, Dr. Haing S. Ngor, Ghandi, Sydney Sheldon, Madame C.J. Walker, Sidney Poitier, Diana Sands, Lorraine Hansberry, Bob James, Dith Pran, Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Sandra Oh, Wes Montgomery, Julie Taymor, Mira Nair, Dr. George Washington Carver, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Betty Shabazz, Quincy Jones...

My Blog

Up dharma Down

One of my favorite groups right now is Up dharma Down from the Philippines. I stumbled across them accidentally on You Tube and it's been love ever since, lol. I have a friend in the Philippines...
Posted by Kelly on Wed, 23 May 2007 01:32:00 PST

Wings and Things

Buffalo, alas, is a racially polarized area, much like Metro Detroit where I'm originally from. Actually, no place in the country is as divided as Metro Detroit, but that's another blog. B...
Posted by Kelly on Mon, 21 May 2007 07:12:00 PST

skin

I had a deposition with an African gentleman today. He was 60 years old, but only looked about 40. The opposing attorney remarked at the end of the deposition, "I notice that black people ...
Posted by Kelly on Mon, 07 May 2007 09:09:00 PST

Citizen of the world

I had an interesting experience yesterday (interesting to me, at least. I actually wasn't going to blog anymore because my friend Sondjy told me my blogs were boring. Yet here I am again.&...
Posted by Kelly on Thu, 03 May 2007 08:38:00 PST

Finish the Sentence

1. I've come to realize that my last kiss was : too short 2. I am listening to: white noise in my headphones 3. I talk: 4. I love: music 5. My best friend/s: Kevin and Chris 6. My Car is: will be blac...
Posted by Kelly on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:34:00 PST

Man and Wife

I LOVE "Man and Wife TV"!!! All I've got to say is...if I was Fatman Scoop, I would NEVER leave the house. Ever. He actually lucked up and found the perfect wife. Just don't fuck it up! &n...
Posted by Kelly on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:46:00 PST

Pinot Noir and "Sideways"

I tried to be a wine snob... I saw the movie "Sideways" and lost my head just like a bunch of other people and became snobby about wine. In the movie, the main character, Miles, is a Pinot Noir freak....
Posted by Kelly on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:11:00 PST

It's nothing personal...

It's not personal if I don't reply to messages and I don't know you... I get a lot of scams thrown at me, so I'm very careful about who I respond to. So if your page looks suspect to me, I will defini...
Posted by Kelly on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:52:00 PST

Writing the novel

This morning I finished reading "This Year You Write Your Novel" by Walter Mosley. This has to be the best book on writing that I've ever read. Short and to the point. It's only 100 ...
Posted by Kelly on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:09:00 PST

Nice guys finish last

Nice guys finish last... That's it, that's the whole blog. No more to be said.
Posted by Kelly on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:32:00 PST